"From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City. Featuring contributions from such luminaries as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Adelle Waldman, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, and many others, this collection of essays is a must-have for every lover of New York--regardless of whether or not you call the Big Apple home"--

Contents

New York, in the mirror / Rosanne Cash

Stay hungry / Jason Diamond

New York and the night / Patricia Engel

To live and die in New York / Phillip Lopate

Goodbye girl / Anna Holmes

A guy named Wade / Jon-jon Goulian

City, hoarded / Colin Harrison

All I really need to know I learned in New York City / Whoopi Goldberg

New York three times / Alexander Chee

Use of the Coyote Ugly Saloon / Elizabeth Gilbert

City of tongues / Jenna Wortham

But why did you move here? / Stephen Elliott

Manhattan / Julie Klam

Royalty / Susan Orlean

ME LOVE BROOKLYN / Adam Sternbergh

New York cool / Sari Botton

Shvitz at the end of the world / Brian Macaluso

Quit everything / Kathleen Hale

City of mundane fantasy / Elliott Kalan

SF -> NYC / Isaac Fitzgerald

Publishing: a like story / Maris Kreizman

ESB / Rachel Syme

Studied knowledgeability of the native New Yorker / Amy Sohn

Hot time in the old town / Owen King

Conversions: coming of identity in late-nineties New York / Porochista Khakpour

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"From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City. Featuring contributions from such luminaries as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Adelle Waldman, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, and many others, this collection of essays is a must-have for every lover of New York--regardless of whether or not you call the Big Apple home"--
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